Wall constructed from panels held in position with the aid of concealed fasteners and concealable fasteners for use in assembling such wall

A wall or partition comprising first and second coplanar end-abutting panels, invisibly secured together along a joinder line at a wall framing member by a first series of a plurality of spaced apart fasteners joined to the first panel at the abutting end thereof and held to the framing member, and a second series of spaced apart fasteners joined to the second panel at the abutting end thereof and with parts of each of the fasteners of each of the series of fasteners extending parallel to said panel at the concealed back major surfaces thereof, said fasteners of the second series of fasteners being so located as to avoid contact with said fasteners of the first series of fasteners and said extending parts of said fasteners of the second series of fasteners, when the wallboard panels are in coplanar end-butting relationship, contacting the back major surface of the first panel and, in conjunction with the framing member, the first series of fasteners, means for holding the fasteners of the first series to the framing member, and the first panel, preventing said second panel from moving away from said framing member and from said first panel in a direction having a component at right angles to the plane of the panels, which fasteners of the first series are each formed from a single sheet of temperable metal and include a substantially T-shaped fastening and spacing structure at the backs of the wallboard, when installed, exposed to the wall cavity formed at least in part by the wallboards and the framing members, having in a plane a surface or surfaces of a panel abutting part or a plurality of such parts and in a parallel plane a surface or surfaces of a framing abutting part or a plurality of such parts, said planes being spaced apart by intermediate rigidizing walls of the fasteners, with the fasteners of the first series having arms of the T, or the cross-bar thereof, disposed behind the first wallboard panel and the leg of the T extending beyond said first panel end and mechanically fastened to the framing member and with the arms of the T each having spaced web portions extending perpendicular thereto, between the ends of abutting wallboard panels, and panel piercing portions extending from said web portions, parallel to and partially covering the arms of the T and within the body of the wallboard panel at the end thereof, and which fasteners of the second series are of the same structure as those of the first series.

A concealable fastener for holding wallboard panels together in coplanar abutting relationship, substantially invisibly secured together along a joinder line at a wall framing member by a first series of a plurality of spaced apart fasteners joined to a first panel at the abutting end thereof, which is held to a framing member, and a second series of spaced apart fasteners joined to a second panel along the abutting end thereof and with parts of each of the fasteners of each of both series of fasteners extending parallel to said panels at concealed back major surfaces thereof, said fasteners of the second series of fasteners being so located as to avoid contact with said fasteners of the first series of fasteners, and said extending parts of said fasteners of the second series of fasteners, when the wallboard panels are in coplanar edge-abutting relationship, contacting the back side of the first panel and, in conjunction with the framing member and the first panel, preventing said second panel from moving away from said framing member and from said first panel in a direction having a component at right angles to the plane of the panels, which comprises directly connected plate and tongue portions which are essentially flat, with the plate portion capable of contacting the first panel and the tongue portion capable of contacting the second panel, a pair of web portions extending only from the plate portion and installable between first and second panel ends, a pair of impaling flange portions extending from said web portions and partialy covering said plate portion and capable of penetrating said first panel at an abutting end thereof, a part of the plate portion of the fastener which is capable of contacting a framing member, and a part of the plate portion which is capable of contacting an associated wallboard panel, with such framing contacting and panel contacting parts being connected by a wall member of a plurality of wall members which space(s) them apart and strengthen(s) the fastener.